When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Newly analyzed dinosaur eggs from China are offering an unusually intimate look at how these animals reproduced, grew, and nested in the final chapters of the Cretaceous. From clutch sites preserved ...

Prior to this discovery, trace fossils from the Middle Jurassic in Asia had largely been limited to dinosaur and turtle tracks, with no documented evidence of amphibians.

An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

Nestled in the Linxia Basin, Hezheng County lies at the boundary of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau. The region boasts a continuous sedimentary stratum formed no later than 30 million ...

A China-led study has reported the discovery of amphibian track fossils in Middle Jurassic strata in Beijing, the first such ...

On January 22, 2003, Chinese paleontologists discovered the fossil of a dinosaur species with four wings. The 130-million-year-old fossil was covered in preserved feathers across its … ...